invisibly

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Recent Examples of invisibly The military is nothing if not secretive, and all of this work could be done in the dark—much the way the Manhattan Project, which developed the world’s first nuclear weapons, operated silently, invisibly, from June 1942 to August 1947. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Aug. 2026 Effective communication should be honest, consistent, and rooted in core values, acknowledging that many boycotts occur invisibly through personal networks, not just public channels. Edward Segal, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Just because SynthID seems solid right now doesn’t mean all attempts to invisibly label AI content will work. ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026 What can stranded shoes, toys, or fragments of plastic tell us that their counterparts still moving invisibly through global trade cannot? Alexander Klose, Scientific American, 24 July 2026 All the tempestuous hormones and emotions and urges invisibly flashing across their own bodies like a rippling second skin. Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 Yet somewhere, invisibly, the horizon had contracted. Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026 An outbreak that spreads invisibly is far harder to contain because contact tracing is always one step behind. Klinger Soares Faico Filho, The Conversation, 18 May 2026 However, viral content does not move around the Internet involuntarily; a viral meme cannot be passed along invisibly with someone’s sneeze, for example. Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invisibly
Adverb
  • The rival closed her eyes, shivered, nodded almost imperceptibly.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
  • The nanobubbler system — essentially imperceptibly small bubbles meant to oxygenate the water and choke off algae growth — had never been tested at this scale on a public monument before deployment.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Adverb
  • The dozens of edits that Congress made have been minutely examined by historians and literary scholars.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Its standout feature is its hyper-deformable wheels, minutely structured from silicone, composite, and stainless steel, which create a soft, enlarged contact surface with the terrain.
    Tim Barber, Wired News, 14 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • The only natural safeguard your body has against UV light is a microscopically thin layer of a pigment called melanin in your epidermis.
    Guy German, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
  • Coming up with materials that will do that work is actually the easy part; turning them into the microscopically-thin film of a solar sail is the real challenge.
    Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 31 May 2026
Adverb
  • But Olson's foot barely came off the bag, and the call was changed to a hit after the Mets challenged.
    CBS News, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Nadine Visser of the Netherlands secured her first major outdoor title by winning the women's 100 meter hurdles — barely.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • While these might seem insignificantly small compared to the average density, gravitation causes the overdense regions to grow and attract matter into them over time, while the underdense regions similarly give up their matter to their more dense surroundings.
    Big Think, Big Think, 3 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • That’s less likely than iPhone and Apple Watch increases, since AirPods should be minimally impacted by rising memory and storage costs.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Keswani said the surgery is typically performed at around 26 weeks of pregnancy using a minimally invasive approach.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • The company used this speed advantage (and, later, similar ones) to profit from infinitesimally brief pricing differences between exchanges, all while fulfilling clients’ orders to buy and sell on those exchanges.
    Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Even then, an opponent might be infinitesimally more precise.
    Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026

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“Invisibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invisibly. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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